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Title: Young Captain Jack
The Son of a Soldier

Author: Horatio Alger and Arthur M. Winfield

Release Date: January 23, 2007 [eBook #20432]

Language: English

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YOUNG CAPTAIN JACK

Or

The Son of a Soldier

by

HORATIO ALGER, JR.

Author of "Out for Business," "Falling in with Fortune," "Adrift in New
York," "Tattered Tom," "Ragged Dick," Etc.

Completed by

ARTHUR M. WINFIELD

Author of "The Rover Boys Series," Etc.

[Illustration: "OUT OF MY WAY, BOY!" AND NOW THE GUERRILLA RAISED
HIS OWN SWORD.--_Frontispiece._]

New York
The Mershon Company
Publishers
Copyright, 1901,
by
The Mershon Company.
All rights reserved.

PREFACE.

"YOUNG CAPTAIN JACK" relates the adventures of a boy waif, who is cast
upon the Atlantic shore of one of our Southern States and taken into one
of the leading families of the locality. The youth grows up as a member
of the family, knowing little or nothing of his past. This is at the
time of the Civil War, when the locality is in constant agitation,
fearing that a battle will be fought in the immediate vicinity. During
this time there appears upon the scene a Confederate surgeon who, for
reasons of his own, claims Jack as his so